Question

Problem:

one column of a table contains serialized php arrays. i’d like to extract values of that serialized data structure without using php. i’d need a postgres sql statement to get those values.

Example:

here’s the part of the serialized datastructure, i’d need (the bold part):

… s:12:”SearchtermID”;s:4:”1008“; ….

THANKS!

Answer 1

This will work in your example:

SELECT substring('... s:12:"SearchtermID";s:4:"1008"; ....', 's:4:"([0-9]+)"');

See the manual here and here.
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